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10.13
10.06
9.29
9.22
9.15
9.08
9.01
8.25
8.18
8.11
8.04
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7.07
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1.06.02
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1.07.01
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The table compiles selected SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists.
See #Key below.

Prose Quote #117

The once-proud war galleon was named the Resolve, and she listed drunkenly in the nightmare sea...

from LOCUS Magazine

Bestseller lists compiled from sales at specialty stores:

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PW
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SFFH on General Lists
20 October 2002


The only debut this week is a boxed set of the Harry Potter novels, on Amazon's paperback list at #8.

Two of last week's debuts extend their range. David Weber's War of Honor (Baen) drops off three of last week's lists, but debuts on two others. Walter Jon Williams's Star Wars novel Destiny's Way (Del Rey) debuts on two additional lists.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.27
LAT
10.20
SFC
10.20
USAT
10.17
WP
10.20
WSJ
(10.20)
Book
seller
[UK] (10.18)
PW
10.21
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

10.21
Amz
(10.19)
Amz UK
(10.19)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 10x3 50 10x4 10x2 10x6 15x5 15x6 25x4 10x4
Hardcovers
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 5.12 / 24 xx xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 7 +4
Banks, Dead Air 9.15 / 6             x       5 +2
Barker, Abarat 9.29 / 4 10 -3                   2 +1
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 9.08 / 7 26 -2 xxx   xxx..   xxx xxx.. xx xxx.. 16 -4 (17 =)
Card, Shadow Puppets 9.01 / 8 xxx xxx xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 21 -5  
Chabon, Summerland 9.15 / 5 4 -1 x 3 =   x     [1 ++] 4 =    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 23x xx           xxx.. [9 -3] xxx..    
Dick, Minority Report 7.21 / 8x                     (20=)
Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk 9.22 / 5             xxx..       1 =
Funke, The Thief Lord 9.01 / 8 8 -4             [7 ++] 8 -2    
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 14 xxx..   xxx..         [x] xxx.. 24 -4  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: Butlerian Jihad 9.29 / 4 17 -5 10 -6 xx xx xx 7 =   11 -2 xx 6 -1  
Jacques, Triss 10.13 / 2 2 -1     49 -1         2 -1    
King, From a Buick 8 9.08 / 7 3 -1 4 -1   11 -4 x 1 = xx 4 -2 7 -3 2 = 6 +4
Lackey, Exile's Honor 10.13 / 2 31 -4                 17 -7  
Marshall, The Straw Men 9.01 / 6x             xxx..       x
Nix, Sabriel 9.29 / 3             x        
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight 9.08 / 5x xxx..     xxx..   xxx..   [6 -1] xxx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban   x                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 116x xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   6 +                    
Tolkien, LotR Collectors' ed.                     xxx  
Weber, War of Honor 10.13 / 2 12 -4 14 ++ x x       10 -3 x 4 ++  
Williams, Star Wars.. Destiny's Way 10.13 / 2 9 -2 8 ++   34 -14       8 -2   5 ++  
    NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ Book
seller
PW Book
Sense
Amz Amz UK
Paperbacks
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting 9.29 / 4 1 +2     27 =       [10 ++] 3 +4    
Brooks, The Voyage.. Antrax 9.08 / 4x xxx                    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 21x xxx..           xxx.. 8 -7 xx    
Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains 10.06 / 3 33 +2     xx       x   xx  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 9.08 / 5x xx             xxx.. xxx..    
Jacques, Taggerung 9.08 / 5x xxx             [3 ++] xxx    
King/Straub, Black House 9.08 / 7 18 -3     32 -4     6 -2 x (mm) xxx..   1 =
Koontz, Strangers 10.13 / 2 14 +6     23 +13              
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass               8 +2   xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]               7 =   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               9 +        
Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy (mm)                     21 +1  
Robb, Purity in Death 9.08 / 7 31 -2 xxx..   xx       xx xxx.. 22 -13  
Rowling, Harry Potter set 10.20 / 1                   8 ++  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 6.17.01 / 71 5 = xxx.. xxx.. 45 +4     5 -2   x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 8.11 / 11 (us) 2 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 24 +1     3 -1   7 -4    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   4 = xxx.. xxx.. 43 +7     4 -3   10 +4    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   9 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     10 -4   xxx..    
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                     x  
Tolkien, The Two Towers         xx       xxx.. 10 +    
    NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ Book
seller
PW Book
Sense
Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists [Italics and brackets indicate stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before -- and do not contribute to the cumulative weeks on any list totals]

Key:
The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:
   =    same as last week
   + or - with number:    difference since last week
   +    back on list
   ++    new on list
   x    no longer on list (number of x's: weeks off list)

Columns show ranks on lists from, respectively, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.  



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